When a defendant aids and abets an intended offense and becomes liable for an unintended offense?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Quintero, F069749 (Cal. App. 2016):
When a defendant aids and abets an intended offense and, as a result, becomes liable for an unintended offense, he or she has acted, by definition, in pursuit of a single objective: the commission of the intended offense. (See People v. Bradley (2003) 111 Cal.App.4th 765, 768-772.) Here, defendant was convicted of attempted murder and robbery on the theory he knew the robbery would happen and that the attempted murder
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